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Ahmad Natche / احمد النتشة (Seville, 1974) holds a B.A. in Media Studies (Image Sciences) from the University of Seville and a Film Editing degree at International Film and TV School of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV, Cuba). He also took Film Directing courses with Mexican Filmmaker Arturo Ripstein (Huelva, Spain,1996), Cuban director Fernando Pérez (San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, 2000) and Spanish director Victor Erice (Alicante, Spain 2004).

In Cuba he directed El extranjero (The Foreigner, 2000) —Best Fiction short film at the FAD Awards (Barcelona) according to a jury presided by Joaquim Jordà. He has worked as a film editor and director in Spain, Latin America and Palestine. He collaborated with Nelson Rodriguez, dean of Cuban cinema, in the editing of Machin: A Whole Life (Machín, toda una vida, Nuria Villazan, 2002). He received the Best Editing Icaro Prize for Dear Camilo (Julio Molina y Daniel Ross, 2007), also awarded as the best Central American documentary film of 2007.

In Cada pez a su estanque (Each Fish to Its Own Pond, 2007) he regained the first film shot at school in Spain, in 1966, to meditate on the memory and the passing of time.